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“011”

2004320 x 170cm, oilprivate collextion, Munich

On
October 20, 1968, Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis, a Greek
shipping tycoon, on Skorpios, Greece. Four and a half months earlier
her brother-in-law, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in
Los Angeles. At that point, Jacqueline decided the Kennedys were being
“targeted”, and that she and her children had to leave the United
States. Marriage to Onassis appeared to make sense: he had the money
and power to give her the protection she wanted, while she had the
social cachet he craved. He ended his affair with opera diva Maria
Callas to marry her. Jackie gave up Secret Service protection and
franking privilege, to which a widow of a president of the United
States is entitled, after her marriage to Onassis.For a time, the
marriage brought her adverse publicity and seemed to tarnish the image
of the grieving presidential widow. However, others viewed the marriage
as a positive symbol of the “modern American woman” who would not be
afraid to look after her own financial interests and to protect her
family...

“012”

2004320 x 170cm, oilGallery Kroupa, Vienna

An
early 1970s Spider-Man story led to the revision of the Comics Code.
Previously, it was taboo to depict illegal drugs, even negatively.
However, in 1970 the Nixon administration’s Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare asked Stan Lee to run an anti-drug message in
one of Marvel’s top-selling titles. Lee chose the top-selling The
Amazing Spider-Man; issues #96–98 (May–July 1971) feature a story arc
that shows the negative effects of drug abuse. In the story, Peter
Parker’s friend Harry Osborn starts taking pills and becomes so ill
that when Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin (Norman Osborn),
Spider-Man defeats Norman by simply showing him his sick son. While the
story had a clear anti-drug message, the Comics Code Authority refused
to issue its seal of approval. Marvel nevertheless sold the three
issues without the Comics Code Authority’s approval or seal and sold so
well that the industry’s self-censorship was undercut by ...

“015”

200585 x 70 cm, oilprivate collection, Hong Kong

Besides
being a Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Justice and Development
Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a tradesman.He is the shareholder
of three different firms. The first one is Emniyet Foods Inc., which
distributes biscuits and chocolates produced by Ülker… The Erdogan
family is controlling 50% of this companys capital. The second is Ihsan
Foods Inc., which distributes the diary products of Ülker. Yenidogan
Foods Marketing Inc., which is the third firm partially owned by
Erdogan, started to operate early 2007 and distributes soft drinks
produced by Ülker again. The Prime Minister holds 12% of the shares of
this company, which has a capital of 100 billion TL… “These
commercial activities of the Prime Minister had no illegal aspect
whatsoever. However, conformity with law does not always mean
conformity with the public conscience and with clean and transparent
politics… The laws of ethics in the West prevent prime ministers,
ministers, and deputies from engaging in commercial activities.According
to numerous Turkish diplomats and officers in the Turkish General
Staff, the Turkish military refuses to buy Ülker products for its
conscripts so as not to subsidize Islamism. Nevertheless, since
Erdogan’s accession, Ülker has become increasingly visible, perhaps as
businesses seek the prime minister’s favor. Across Istanbul and
Ankara, Ülker’s ColaTurka has begun to replace Coca-Cola in kiosks and
store shelves and in 2006 Ülker showed an impressive year to year 83%
revenue growth.Ülker also is a member of the MUSIAD (The
Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association) working in support of the
Turkish economy but with an added purpose of supporting Muslim business
values and building strong trade ties with the Muslim world.The
group, whose collective membership produces more than 10 percent of
Turkey’s gross domestic product, has the same Islamist roots as the
governing Justice and Development Party. It emphasizes “ethical”
business — the idea that commerce should not be dissociated from
religion.Large firms deemed un-Islamic or pro-Western by the ruling
party’s advisors have also been subject to arbitrary taxation and
penalty unsupported by any financial regulation or audit. The
government has targeted beer manufacturer Efes and the local Coca-Cola
bottler, while promoting products manufactured by companies deemed
Islamist. Turkish Airlines once served Coca-Cola on its flights.
According to flight attendants, at the request of the government, it
increasingly substitutes Cola Turka, a brand owned by Ülker...

“016”

2004
80 x 70 cm, oil
private collection, Hong Kong

Since
1969 when it was launched in Germany Creme21 was an Icon and sign of
the new prosperity of Germany. The Brand quickly became Germanys most
succesfull creams and the color Orange was the Connection of Creme21 to
the 70´ies mood and therefore a well chosen marketing startegie. But
the times changed and 1986 Henkel AG of Germany stops production and
distribution of Creme 21 to concentrate on other strong brands of th
ecorporation such as Fa. But in 2003 Antje Stickel buys the
internationaly rights to the Brand from Henkel and starts a very
succesfull...

“017”

200580 x 120 cm, oilprivate collection, USA

A
large Chinese character, Double Happiness, on a red piece of paper or
in paper cut is always put where it must strike the eyes on a young
couple’s wedding. It has a story behind it.In the ancient Tang
Dynasty, there was a student who was on the way to the capital to
attend the national final examination, in which the top learners would
be selected as the ministers in the court. Unfortunately, he fell ill
halfway when he passed through a mountain village. Thanks to a
herbalist doctor and his daughter, he was taken to their house and
treated well. He recovered quickly due to the father and the daughter’s
good care. Well, when he had to leave, he found it hard to say good-bye
to the pretty girl, and so did she. They fell in love. So the girl
wrote down the right hand part of an antithetical couplet for the
student to match: “Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration.”“Well,
I can make it though it is not easy. But you’ll have to wait till I
have finished the examination.” replied the student. The young girl
nodded in significance.In the examination the young man won the
first place, who was appreciated by the emperor. Also the winners were
interviewed and tested by the emperor. As luck would have it, he was
asked by the emperor to finish a couplet, which would need a right part
as the answer. The emperor wrote:“Red flowers dot the land in the breeze’s chase while the land colored up in red after the kiss.”The
young man realized immediately the right part of the couplet by the
girl was the perfect fit to the emperor’s couplet, so he took the
girl’s part as the answer without hesitation. The emperor was delighted
to see the matching half of his couplet was so talent and harmonious
that he authorized the young man’s identity as Minister in the court
and allowed him to pay a visit to his hometown first before holding the
post. The young man met the girl happily at home and told her the
emperor’s couplet. They soon got married. For the wedding, the couple
DOUBLED the Chinese character, HAPPY, together, on a red piece of paper
and put it on the wall to express the happiness for the two events. And
from then on, it has been taken on and became a social custom-...

“018”

2006165 x 120 cm, oilGallery M-Ars, Vienna

While
angels and demons alike are generally regarded as invisible to human
sight, they are frequently depicted as human-like creatures with wings,
though many theologians have argued that they have no physical
existence, but can take on human form. The angels’ wings are heavily
implied by the Scriptures. Seraphim are depicted in art and scripture
as having six wings (Isaiah 6:1-3), and Cherubim four. Theologians
agreed that angels have no gender (see more extended discussion below).
Whilst artists avoided making the Virgin and saints too attractive, so
that inappropriate thoughts would not be aroused in the beholder, no
such constraint applied to angels, who have no se. Their exceptional
beauty was well attested in Scripture. The long plain dress or tunic
traditionally given to most angels comes hardly altered from the
Byzantine tradition, where it had, if anything, a male connotation. In
the Renaissance these were often brightly coloured, but before and
after were mostly plain white.Byzantine angels were also often
shown in military outfits, and, transmitted by icons from Crete in
particular, this tradition was transferred to Western art, especially
for Gabriel and Michael, who wear versions of Byzantine officer’s
armour and clothing into the Baroque period and later. The same
archangels, when in attendance on Christ or the Virgin, wear the loros,
a jewelled strip of cloth hanging vertically down the front of the
body. This was worn only by the Imperial family and their bodyguard;
the archangels were seen as God’s bodyguard. They also often carry long
white wands of office. Hence, when a high ranking Byzantine in a
visionary dream in 586 saw two men he took to be bodyguards of the
Emperor, they subsequently turned out to be angels.[11] For other
scenes, the same angels must appear incognito to accord with, for
example, their appearance to Abraham. However artists are very
reluctant to depict them in normal clothes, or without wings. Angels
are often shown making music in heaven, sometimes in bands of a fair
size, or in depictions of the Book of Revelations, blowing trumpets in
accordance with the text. In the 15th century West in particular,
angels are sometimes shown wearing versions of contemporary clerical
vestments. There was a theological comparison developed between the
role of Gabriel in the Annunciation and that of the priest saying Mass In
the Renaissance, the classical putto, usually naked, was first revived
in secular and mythological subjects, but they soon appeared, often in
great quantity, as angels, becoming almost the norm in compositions
with a number of angels merely in attendance.

“019”

2005150 x 110 cm, oilprivate collection, Vienna

In Japanese cuisine, ikizukuri is the preparation of sashimi from a living animal.Ikizukuri
usually begins with the customer selecting, from a tank in the
restaurant, the animal (shrimp, octopus, lobster) they wish to eat. The
chef, almost always a sashimi chef who has undergone years of training
and apprenticeship, takes the animal out of the tank and filets and
guts it, but without killing the animal, which is served on a plate,
sliced, with the heart still beating.Ikizukuri of fish consists of
thin, sheet-like slices or finger-sized pieces garnished with lemon
wedges, a decoration of ginger, or nori (seaweed). Squid and small
octopuses are usually wrapped around a chopstick and eaten whole.Ikizukuri
is a controversial method of food preparation, both in Japan and in
other countries. However, aficionados claim that the flavour and
quality — undoubtedly of the utmost freshness — justifies the
controversial procedure. The practice is banned in Australia while
German law prohibits shrimp ikizukuri but not fish ikizukuri....

“020”

2005165 x 110 cm, oilprivate collection, Vienna

Silicon
is a non-metallic element with atomic number 14 and symbol Si. In the
periodic table, it is in the same group as carbon and is carbon’s
closest relative. Silicon is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element
in the earth’s crust and is found in plants, animals and in most living
organisms.Foods, mainly cereal products and unrefined grains of
high fiber content are major sources of available silicon for humans.
Studys show that daily silicon intakes were markedly higher in men than
in women, mainly because of higher beer consumption by men. Silicon
intakes of both sexes decrease with increasing age. Neither silicon
deficiency nor a silicon-responsive condition have yet been identified
in humans, and dietary silicon excess has not been linked to any
diseases. Although silicon deficiency states have been reported in
chicks and rats, and silicon is an essential nutrient for some plants.
Chicks fed silicon-deficient diets are found to have abnormalities in
their skulls and long bones. Abnormalities include poorly formed
joints, defective endochondral growth and defective articular
cartilage. Bone and cartilage abnormalities have also been found in
rats fed silicon-deficient diets. In these animals, silicon appears to
be involved in collagen and glycosaminoglycan formation. Silicon may
play such a role in other animals, including humans, but this has not
yet.....

“021”

2005165 x 110 cm, oilprivate collection, Vienna

- Tying a non-lubricated condom around the muzzle of the rifle barrel in
order to prevent barrel fouling by keeping out detritus.- The OSS
used condoms for various applications, from storing corrosive fuel
additives and wire garrotes (with the T-handles removed) to holding the
acid component of a self-destructing film canister, to finding use in
improvised explosives.- Navy SEALs have used doubled condoms,
sealed with neoprene cement, to protect non-electric firing assemblies
for underwater demolitions - leading to the term “Dual Waterproof
Firing Assemblies.”- Spies during the Cold War used condoms to protect ultra-miniature Minox cameras and film for covert storage and transport.- Condoms have been used to waterproof boxes of matches and kindling, often by hikers and campers.- The British SAS carry condoms as a method for carrying water in emergencies.- Condoms have also been used in many cases to smuggle cocaine and other
drugs across borders and into prisons by filling the condom with drugs,
tying it in a knot and then either swallowing it or inserting it into
the rectum. - According to journalists at the BBC protecting a
microphone to be used to make an underwater recording with condom is
standard BBC practice when a waterproof microphone is needed but cannot
be procured.- Condoms are used with wireless microphone belt packs to prevent sweat from entering the electronics.- Condoms are used by engineers to keep soil samples dry during soil tests- Foot travelers in Amazonic South America wear condoms when wading
through water to prevent a small catfish known as candirú from swimming
into the urethra. The fish is attracted to the scent of blood and urine.- In special effects, condoms are often used as containers for fake blood
on actors, bursting open upon detonation with a squib to simulate
gunshot wounds.- Condoms are used to cover endovaginal ultrasound probes for sanitary reasons during medical ultrasound examinations.- Condoms are used as a one way valve by paramedics when performing a
chest decompression in the field. The decompression needle is inserted
through the condom, and inserted into the chest. The condom folds over
the hub allowing air to exit the chest, but preventing it from entering.- Condoms are used by geological engineers when using displacement
rods/probes to measure soil resistance by the cone penetration test
method. The condom is unrolled over the pointed metal probe head to
protect delicate sensors near the tip during the initial penetration.